Quotes about Expression

She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love letters.

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like.

You know, you're a little complicated after all." "Oh no," she assured him hastily. "No, I'm not really - I'm just a - I'm just a whole lot of different simple people.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

You can tell my mood by my makeup. When I'm depressed, it's really dark. Then I'll do super-dumb happy makeup. Like, I'll do one eye electric blue and one smoky brown, and you won't even figure it out until you're talking to me - then you're like, 'Whoa!'

I always pray when I write songs that my spirit guides, or whoever is with me, inspiring me, would let me speak the truth.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.